Re: Android Emoji font permissible in Fedora?

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On 01/07/2014 05:57 AM, Peter Oliver wrote:
> I was considering packaging for Fedora the font Android Emoji, which is
> a Google font that provides pictographs in Android Jelly Bean.  For a
> screenshot see, for example,
> http://phandroid.com/2012/08/30/tips-tricks-heres-a-quick-list-of-a-few-jelly-bean-emojis/.
> 
> 
> It happens that some of the glyphs depict the Android robot smiling,
> frowning, crying, etc..  I wondered whether this could pose any kind of
> trademark issue?
> 
> The font uses the Apache License, Version 2.0, and is distributed with
> the Android source code, at
> https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/base.git/+/jb-release/data/fonts/.

Since Google is the author and distributor of this font, and also the TM
holder for the Bug Droid logo, I will assume that there are no
additional TM restrictions, assuming Apache 2.0 is complied with.

~tom

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